{"id":1406,"date":"2012-05-25T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:35:15","slug":"tenir-la-dragee-haute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Tenir la drag\u00e9e haute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tenir la drag\u00e9e haute<\/span> :<br \/>\nLiterally: To hold the sugared almond\/sweetmeat up high.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est faire sentir son pouvoir \u00e0 quelqu&#8217;un, lui tenir t\u00eate, ou bien faire languir quelqu&#8217;un et finalement lui donner bien moins que ce qu&#8217;il esp\u00e9rait : This is to make somebody feel your power, to stand up to them, or even to keep somebody waiting, and finally give them a lot less than they were hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;J&#8217;en \u00e9tais arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 ne plus beaucoup souffrir de n&#8217;\u00eatre pas aim\u00e9e. Je l&#8217;avais ; il \u00e9tait \u00e0 moi ; il m&#8217;appartenait : je restais ma\u00eetresse de l&#8217;argent ; je lui tenais la drag\u00e9e haute. Nous pensions qu&#8217;il ne mettait rien au-dessus de l&#8217;argent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Mauriac, Le N\u0153ud de vip\u00e8res (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Taken from: &#8216;Pourquoi dit-on ? 2012&#8217; by Delphine Gaston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenir la drag\u00e9e haute : Literally: To hold the sugared almond\/sweetmeat up high. C&#8217;est faire sentir son pouvoir \u00e0 quelqu&#8217;un, lui tenir t\u00eate, ou bien faire languir quelqu&#8217;un et finalement lui donner bien moins que ce qu&#8217;il esp\u00e9rait : This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[77,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}